Packing-tube.



PATENTED MAR. 10, 1903.

G. H. BROWNELL. PACKING TUBE.)

APPLIUATIOI FILED KAY 38, 1902.

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GEORGE H. BROWNELL, OF JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN.

PACKING-TUBE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 722,204, dated March 10, 1903.

Application filed May 26,1902. Serial No. 109,090. (No model.)

To all whom it nuty concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. BROWNELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Janesville, in the county of Rock and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Packing-Tubes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a wrapper, jacket, envelop, or protector for use in connection with bottles, glassware generally, furniture, and other articles requiring protection when shipped and handled in order to prevent breakage or injury by having the surface of the goods marred.

This invention provides a packing-wrapper not adapted to be aifected by dampness or exposure to moisture, which tends to loosen the joints of packing-tubes of the character aforesaid, having the overlapped edge portions glued or pasted.

In accordance with this invention the overlapped edge portions of the sheet material are stitched, and the stitching is further utilized to hold the inner and outer tubes together and to positively confine the filling placed between the concentric inner and outer tubes, said stitching being unaffected by dampness or moisture of any kind. Hence the tube or wrapper is preserved under all conditions.

The invention further consists of the novel features and structural details, which hereinafter will be more particularly set forth, illustrated, and finally claimed.

In the drawings hereto attached and forming a part of this specification, Figure l is a perspective view of the preferred form of wrapper. Fig. 2 is a transverse section thereof. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a modification.

Oorresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

The vital feature of the invention consists of a packing-wrapper composed of an outer casing 1, inner casing 2, and interposed filling 3, of excelsior and other like and cheap material. The casings 1 and 2 have a con centric arrangement and are composed of strips of sheet material, such as paper or fabric of any kind, folded or bent between their longitudinal edges and having the edge portions overlapped and secured together by stitching 4, said stitching serving to unite the inner casing or tube to the outer casing or tube and confining the filling 3, so as to bind all together and prevent relative slipping. The parts are stitched together by machinery of special construction or in any convenient way, the several parts being joined at one operation.

In the preferred construction the inner casing is composed of corrugated cardboard or stifi paper, the article being admirably adapted for bottles and like goods of fragile nature.

In the modification shown in Fig. 3 the inner and outer casings are plain and their edge portions are united by stitching, which also confines the filling in the manner herein stated. The construction differs from that shown in the other two figures by substituting a plain inner casing for the casing of corrugated material.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is 1. A wrapper comprising an inner casing and an outer casing, each of said casings being composed of a single continuous strip of sheet material having the longitudinal edge portions brought together and overlapped, the outer casing being larger than the inner casing and spaced therefrom, filling occupying the space formed between the two casings, and stitching securing the overlapped edge portions of the respective strips, confining the filling in place and holding the casings together, substantially as set forth.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, a packing-wrapper comprising an inner casing formed of corrugated cardboard, an outer casing, filling between the inner and outer casings, and stitching con fining the overlapped edge portions of the material comprising the two casings and serving to unite the casings and to confine the filling material, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE H. BROWNELL.

Witnesses:

THos. S. NOLAN, NELLIE BROWN. 

